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Finally, faint radio signals from a radio range came in over his set. Blair homed in on them, crossed Alaska's northern coastline just one minute off his schedule. He refueled near Fairbanks, roared east at 25,000 feet across Canada, munching a roast beef sandwich between gulps of oxygen. Nine hours later, he set his Mustang down on the runway at New York's Idlewild airport. He was the first man ever to fly solo across the hazardous North Pole route in a single-engined plane...
...mess kit was a quarter-inch of greasy beef stew and lima beans. "If it wasn't for the food my mother sent me, I'd starve," the recruit said. "Eight lima beans. Count them, eight." The mess corporal was sorry: "I would like to give them more to eat, but there isn't enough to go around. I got to feed 15 or 20 more than my ration every...
What Madrileños really wanted for their money was not bulls, but beef. The ruckus at the ring, in defiance of Franco's rule, was another symptom of Spain's rising anger with the Franco administration. Its chief causes: high prices, black marketeers and official corruption. The strike wave began in Barcelona (TIME, March 19) and Pamplona (TIME, May 21). Last week Madrid followed with a mass demonstration, its first since the civil war. Chain letters and clandestine pamphlets touched off 300,000 to 400,000 workers on a buyers' strike. They stayed away from buses...
...rollbacks. Admitted Loren C. Bamert, president of the American National Cattlemen's Association: "I raise cattle, and I don't think these regulations will hurt me. Maybe some of the other gentlemen can tell you how they will be hurt." They couldn't. With beef at 152% of parity, asked one newsman, how could the meatmen complain about the rollback ordered by Di Salle? President Allan Kline of the American Farm Bureau Federation answered the question with a ten-minute dissertation on the American way of life. Cried Agriculture Committeeman Cooley, one of the guests: "You gentlemen...
Only two weeks ago, Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston outlawed "consumer subsidies." This week, with angry cattlemen threatening to cut beef production because of price controls, Mobilization Chief Charles Wilson asked Congress for authority to pay subsidies to cattle growers...